James Saurin (priest)

James Saurin (6 February 1798 – 11 May 1879) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the nineteenth century.[1] The Saurins were a Huguenot family who came to Ireland from Nimes in France in the 1720s.

The son of another James Saurin (Bishop of Dromore from 1819 to 1842)[2] and Elizabeth Lyster, he was born in County Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] He was vicar of Seagoe parish and Archdeacon of Dromore from 1832 until his death in 1879.[4]

He married firstly Emily Simpson of Bath, Somerset, who died in 1838, and secondly Emma Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton, daughter of Reverend Rowland Egerton and Emma Croxton of Norley, Cheshire, and sister of Rowland Egerton-Warburton and Peter Egerton-Warburton. She died in 1891.[5] By his first marriage he had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.[6]

Notes

1. 'Death of Archdeacon Saurin' Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, May 13, 1879; Issue 19870
2. The Standard (London, England), 13 April 1842; Issue 5542. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
3. "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir Supplement p735: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p297 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
5. "The Saurin Centenary" Seagrove Parish Magazine December 1926
6. The Saurin Centenary"